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Senior Business Analyst

£42,000 - £48,000

Reports to: Lead Business Analyst

Department: Chief Operating Office

Contract: 18 month fixed-term contract

Hours: Full time 35 hours per week

We’re open to a variety of ways of working, including full time, part time, job share and compressed hours.

Location: Stratford, London. Office-based with high flexibility (1-2 days per week in the office)

Closing date: 13 February 2023 23:55 This vacancy may close earlier if a high volume of applications are received or once a suitable candidate is found

Recruitment process: Two competency-based interviews

Interview date: Week commencing 20 February 2023

Application method: We operate an anonymised shortlisting process in our commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion. CVs are required for all applications ; we won’t be able to view them until the interview stage so they will not be reviewed in the shortlisting process. To be considered fairly for this role, you must fill out the employment history application questions.

At Cancer Research UK, we exist to beat cancer.

We are professionals with purpose, beating cancer every day. But we need to go much further and much faster. That’s why we’re looking for someone talented, someone who wants to develop their skills, someone like you.

As a Senior Business Analyst, you will play an influential role in delivering our Engage strategy by partnering closely with Cancer Research’s volunteering teams to deliver technical transformation to our volunteering products, and ultimately improve the service we provide to the charity’s supporters. This will involve working with stakeholders at all levels to ensure alignment with the underlying technical needs of the charity and its strategic direction.

As a key member of project teams, you will contribute to the successful delivery of large / complex Technology and Change projects. You will be responsible for accurately analysing, capturing, and validating requirements to successfully shape and deliver solutions that meet the needs of the charity. This will involve identifying and assessing highly beneficial solutions for both technical and business suitability whilst providing analysis expertise to shape outcomes.

As a Senior, you will support the wider Business Analysis community by sharing your expertise, guiding junior members of the team, contributing to toolkits, ways of working, and forming a culture of continuous improvement.

What will I be doing?

• Providing business analysis and delivering the technical transformation to Cancer Research UK’s volunteering products which will involve the implantation of a new Supporter facing system.
• Forging strong stakeholder relationships at all levels to identify and assess solution options (this includes process improvement to meet business outcomes and providing the best cost / benefit balance).
• Collating, understanding, and documenting business, functional and non-functional requirements.
• Identifying strengths and weaknesses of existing processes, suggesting areas of improvement, and challenging as needed.
• Translating business requirements into Agile epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Ensuring requirements are documented appropriately for use by the project team (e.g. developers, testers) according to the project methodology used (e.g. Agile).
• Partnering with departments across the charity to ensure correlation between requirements, information architecture, and user experience.
• Providing analysis expertise and leadership throughout project lifecycles, contributing to the successful delivery of large / complex projects, developing practical ideas and solutions to deliver value to the business.
• Sharing expertise, best practices, and providing support to the business analyst community and to business process owners, whilst also contributing to analysis toolkits.
• Maintaining an understanding of the capabilities, processes, and services which make up the Cancer Research UK technology landscape, with an awareness of emerging technologies to ensure compatible solutions are designed and existing capabilities are re-used where suitable.
• Developing a strong understanding of the needs of specific business areas and their strategy to influence decisions.
• Inputting into test scenarios, scripts, design, and execution by working with customers and colleagues to ensure changes are appropriately tested and accepted. Where appropriate creating relevant guidelines and user guides.
• Partnering closely with Project Managers and Business Owners to track progress against milestones, develop plans, prioritise work, and create sufficient documentation for projects/ work streams.
• Defining KPIs/ SLAs to monitor the effectiveness of processes and enable greater efficiency.
• Assisting in the development of investment appraisals, providing decision support to ensure that solutions designed deliver maximum value to the charity.

What skills are you looking for?

• Significant business analysis experience, including designing, and facilitating workshops.
• Strong understanding and experience in business analysis skills, techniques, and practices.
• Able to communicate and understand stakeholders with a proven ability to influence decision-making at all levels within a variety of contexts.
• Advanced experience in process and data modelling, and process improvement.
• Knowledge of supporter/customer-facing or HR systems would be highly beneficial.
• Understanding of what Cancer Research UK is trying to achieve and the impact that the Delivery team makes in contributing to those objectives.
• Ideally familiar working within a charity / volunteering setting

What will I gain?

Each and every one of our employees contributes to our progress and is supporting our work to beat cancer. We think that’s impressive.

In return, we make sure you are supported by a generous benefits package, a wide range of career and personal development opportunities and high-quality tools, policies and processes to enable you to do your job well.

Our benefits package includes a substantial retirement plan, a generous and flexible leave allowance, discounts on anything from travel to technology, gym membership, and much more.

We don’t forget people have lives outside of work too and so we actively encourage a flexible working culture.

Our work – from funding cutting-edge research to developing public policy – will change the world. It’s exciting to be part of our team.

For the full job description and more information about working with us view our candidate pack.

Additional Information

Cancer Research UK’s Technology team is proud to be part of the Tech Talent Charter (TTC) for our efforts in driving equality, diversity, and inclusion in the workplace. Our vision is a digital world accessible to all, and we have always sought to draw from a diverse pool of talent and maintain an inclusive working environment.

For more information on this career opportunity please visit our website or contact us at [email protected].

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There’s a place for everyone at Cancer Research UK. Our vision is to create a charity where everyone feels like they belong, benefits from and participates in, the work we do. We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential.

We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and cultures, in particular those from ethnic minority backgrounds who are currently under-represented, and believe that a diverse workforce will help us to beat cancer sooner.

If you’re interested in applying and excited about working with us but are unsure if you have the right skills and experience we’d still love to hear from you. We don’t expect everyone to meet all of the criteria listed.

We want to see every candidate performing at their best throughout the job application process, interview process and whilst at work. We therefore ask you to inform us of any concerns you have or any adjustments you might need to enable this to happen by emailing us at [email protected].

Unfortunately, we are unable to recruit anyone below the age of 18, so that we can protect young people from health & safety and safeguarding risks.